Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled schemes and laid the foundation stones for projects, worth over ₹800 crore, in Bihar on the occasion of International Cooperative Day. Shah launched schemes, comprising ₹111 crore from the cooperative department and ₹421 crore from the urban development and housing department.
He also laid the foundation stones for 133 police buildings, which amount to ₹181 crore, along with three road transport and national highway projects valued at ₹109 crore. Shah also remotely inaugurated a makhana processing facility at the Fishermen’s Cooperative Society located in Darbhanga district.
Micro ATMs were distributed to ‘bank mitras’ of the Bihar State Cooperative Bank at the state-level conference attended by representatives from primary agriculture cooperatives and other cooperative societies.
Shah, who arrived on Saturday, is scheduled to speak at a public rally in Gopalganj district later today.
